Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-10


the tiles put into the ground to carry off
the surplus moisture, transformed into
the richest and healthiest of regions.
The God who wastes nothing, l think,
means that this world, from pole to pole,
has to come to perfection of foliage and
| frultage. For that reason he keeps US
running through space, though SO many
| fires are blazing down in It's timbers, aud
SO many mock lerrors have threatened to
! dash 1t to pieces. As soon as the earth
! is completed Cnrlst
WILL DIVIDE IT UP
among the good. The reason he does not
divide il now is because it is not done. 4
kind father will not divide the apple
among his children until the apple is ripe.
In fulfllment of the New Testament
promise, "The meek shall inherit the
earth" and the promise of the Old Tesla
ment, ale shall divide the spoils with the
/ strong" the world will be apportioned to
those worthy to possess it.
| 1t is not Sc now. In this country, Ca
pgble of holding, feeding, clothing and
shelter.ng l ,2DO,O 900 coo inhabitants, ami
where we have nuly 60 900 OeO inhabitants
we have 100000 who can not get honest
WORE, aud with their families, an aggre-
gate Of 20 900, 900 that are on the verge of
starvation. Something wrong most GER
tainly. Ia some way there will be new
apportiODment. Many OF the millionaire
estates Will crack to pieces on the diSSi
,pations of grandchildren, and then dis
solve into the possession of the masses
VINO now have an insufic ency.
"What, you say, viii become of the eX-
pensiye and elaborate buildings now de-
voted to deba Ing amusements? They
will become schools, art galleries, mu-
seums, gymnasiums and churches. The
world IS already getting dlsgusted with
many of these ADJUSTMENTS, and no Won
der. WHAT an importation of unclean
theatrical stuff We nave within the last
few years had brought to our chores
And professors OF religion patronizing
such things, Having sold out TO the devil,
why don't yuu deliver the goods and 60
over to him publicly, BODY, mind, and
soul, and withdraw Jour name from Clris-
| tien churches, aud say, "know all the
world by these presents that am q
! patron OF UuCIeanness audG child Of hell. D."
Sworn TO be tn" LORDS,
YOU ARE FERJURERS.
/ But at last he tide nas turned, ana the
despisers Of purity oyerdid the matter
4 foreign actress of base morals arrived,
intending 10 make the tour of the states,
out the remaining deceIcy l. f our cities
rose up ana cancelled the contracts, ard
drove her back from our American
age, woman tiJ for neither continent.
! IN the name Of Almighty God take these
! RbOmina IONS by the throat. If you
think these offenses are to 90 On forever,
you do not know VINO the Lord is. God
will not wait for the day of judgment.
| All these palaces OF sin VIII become
| palaces of righteousness. They will
come INTO the posse Ssion of those strong
for virtue and strong for God. "He
shall divide he spoil with the strong"
China and Africa, the two richest pnr-
| lions o. the earth by reason o! metals
anu rare woods, and ineXlaustible pro
Effectiveness, are not yet divided up
among the good because they are moi
ready To be divided. Wait till all the
doors that Livingston opened in Africa
shall be entered, and Bishop Taylor with
his band Of self supporting missionaries
have done their work, and the Ashanti eS
and Senegamhians shall know Christ a.
well you know him, end there snail De
on the banks of the Nile and the Niger
high civilization than is now - De
found or the banks of the Hudson, then
Christ will divide up that continent
among his friends. Wait Gutil CANA,
which is half as large as all Europe,
shall have developed her capacities fo1
rice. and tea, and sugar, among
edioles; and her amethyst, and -apphire,
and topaz, and opal, and jasper, and pOr.
! phyry among precious stones; aud her
rosewood, ana ,bony and Csmphor, and
varniSh trees among precious WOODS; anG
/ turned up from her epthS a baif dozen
| Pennsylvania Of coal End iron, and
! twenty NryadaS OF silver, and tlfty Cali
forn!as Of gold, AMI 800, 900, 900 OF PEG,
pie snail be evangelical, then the
Lord will divide il up among the good
II Try text he not deception. but the
eternal truth, then the time Is coming
when eli The farms will be owned
BY CHRISTIAN FARMERs,
and all the commerce controlled py Chris
lian merchants. aud all the authority held
! bV Caristiau officials au4 all the ships
commanded by Christian captains, and
all tue universities under the Instruction
of Christian profess rs; Christian kings.
| Christian presidents, Christian governors.
| Christian mayors, Christian common
council. Yet, what securing out.
What an upJ1rniug, WHAT demolition
What resurrection must precede this
new superintendent!
/ do not uuderrate the enemy. Jalius
Caesar got his greatest victories by fully
estimating the VaStness vi his foes and
prepared his men for their greatest
triumph by saying: " Tomorrow, King
Juoa will be here with so 900 horses,
100, 900 skirmishers, and 800 elephants"
[ 90 not uuderrate the vast forces of sin
aud death, out do you know who COM
mands us? Jehovah Jlreh. And the re-
serve corps behind Us are all the armies
Of heaven and earth, With hurricane and
tnuaderbolt. The good work of the
worlds redemption Is going on Every
minute. Never SO many splendid men
and glorious women on the side of right
as to- day. Never so many good people as
now. Diogenes has been spoken Of as
wise man, because he went with lantern
at MONDAY, saying he was looking for an
honest man. II he had turned his lantern
toward himself he might have discovered
crank. Honest men by the ten thous and,
through the International Series of Sun
day-School Lessons the next generation
all through Christendom are going to he
wiser than any generation since the world
stood. Tne Kingdom is coming. God
can 60 1t. NO housewife with a chamois
cloth ever polished silver teaspoon with
more ease than Christ will rub off from